20. See Jn 16:12.
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15. A very curious expression; we have to realize that the subject, just now called God, the Almighty, is precisely God the Son, the Word, and "his man" is the man he assumed, Jesus. The more usual way of putting it nowadays would be to say "his humanity" instead of "his man." But I think Augustine's concrete language is perhaps preferable.
16. He was not quite accurate here, because the Pharisaic Jews (all the Jews he knew in his day) believed in the resurrection of the dead, though they did not accept that Jesus had already risen from the dead.
17. Not a good proof text for the Holy Spirit being God, because it does not mean "God is the Spirit," though in Latin it could be read in that sense; but only if entirely isolated from its context.
18. This is the first time this article has appeared in his sermons on the creed. In Sermon 213,10, he says very definitely that the resurrection of the flesh is the last article. I think it is hardly likely that it was in the creed of the Church of Hippo when Augustine began his ministry, and was dropped later on. Much more probably it was lacking to begin with, and inserted later on to bring it into line with the practice of other Churches. See note 1 above.
19. Another way of saying "the mystery of faith." See note 2 above. The next phrase, through the holy Church, is also rather anomalous. In Sermon 213 it comes, where we have it in the apostles' creed, immediately after in the Holy Spirit, in the form in the holy Church.
20. See Jn 16:12.